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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-864
TECHNOLOGY GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN DOMESTIC
MINING EDUCATION ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2685]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2685) to require the Secretary of Energy to provide tech-
nology grants to strengthen domestic mining education, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Technology Grants to Strengthen Domestic Mining
Education Act of 2024 or the Mining Schools Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. TECHNOLOGY GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN DOMESTIC MINING EDUCATION.
(a) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) BOARD.-The term Board means the Mining Professional Development
Advisory Board established by subsection (d)(1).
(2) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.-The term institution of higher edu-
cation has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
(3) MINING INDUSTRY.-The term mining industry means the mining indus-
try of the United States, consisting of the search for, and extraction,
beneficiation, refining, smelting, processing, reprocessing, and recycling of, nat-
urally occurring metal and nonmetal minerals from the earth.
(4) MINING PROFESSION.-The term mining profession means the body of
jobs directly relevant to-
(A) the exploration, planning, execution, and remediation of metal and
nonmetal mining sites; and
(B) the extraction, including the separation, refining, alloying, smelting,
concentration, processing, reprocessing, and recycling of mineral ores.
(5) MINING SCHOOL.-The term mining school means-
(A) a mining, metallurgical, geological, or mineral engineering program
accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.,
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